Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Regulations

Merchant Shipping (Training, Certification and Safe Manning) Regulations, 2021

Part 7 : General Manning Levels

107. Employment of certificated ratings on fishing vessels
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(1) Subject to subregulation (2), the owner and the master of every fishing vessel shall ensure that there is employed on the vessel in their appropriate capacities the number of appropriately certificated ratings specified in the applicable item of the following Table:

 

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(2)Where a combination of ratings qualified as ordinary seafarers and as able seafarers is employed in the deck department, at least half the combined number of ratings so employed shall be qualified as able seafarers.